Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[tikay]

Tom, quick, before it goes, have a look at today's google picture thingie (1st day of Autumn).

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More pics of India please when you have time  

I can quite understand that India wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, (No pun intended) but I absolutely loved it. It is definitely one of the most amazing, inspiring, jaw dropping, thought provoking  places in the world.

I have managed to cull my 'keeper' photographs down from 1027 to 450.

I will post some of them on here but I'm not going to do a trip report as such. I wanted to do one, (and a know this sounds daft) but it seems like too much of a responsibility and I'm afraid I won't do it justice, so I'll just post some pics with rambly captions.

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Tom, quick, before it goes, have a look at today's google picture thingie (1st day of Autumn).

I'm browsing on my phone Tone. All I see is a standard google page.

[tikay]

Tom, quick, before it goes, have a look at today's google picture thingie (1st day of Autumn).

I'm browsing on my phone Tone. All I see is a standard google page.

Pfft.

You kids with your fancy 'phones.

Get a proper Desktop.

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Tom, quick, before it goes, have a look at today's google picture thingie (1st day of Autumn).

I'm browsing on my phone Tone. All I see is a standard google page.

Pfft.

You kids with your fancy 'phones.

Get a proper Desktop.

Click to see full-size image.

Mad google image posting skilz.

[tikay]

Tom, quick, before it goes, have a look at today's google picture thingie (1st day of Autumn).

I'm browsing on my phone Tone. All I see is a standard google page.

Pfft.

You kids with your fancy 'phones.

Get a proper Desktop.

Click to see full-size image.

Mad google image posting skilz.

Yeah, never been a problem to me. I still have to use "Chrome" to do that thing you told me though.

[Woodsey]

More pics of India please when you have time  

I can quite understand that India wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, (No pun intended) but I absolutely loved it. It is definitely one of the most amazing, inspiring, jaw dropping, thought provoking  places in the world.

I have managed to cull my 'keeper' photographs down from 1027 to 450.

I will post some of them on here but I'm not going to do a trip report as such. I wanted to do one, (and a know this sounds daft) but it seems like too much of a responsibility and I'm afraid I won't do it justice, so I'll just post some pics with rambly captions.

Good stuff, just happy to see a few pics.

I doubt you will ever have that same reaction visiting any other country, I was exactly the same when I went and it's not been repeated since.

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India.

During the course if our visit we covered over a thousand miles by car, through cities and rural areas. Much of it was at speeds of 20 mph or less with frequent stops, both forced and voluntary. For me this was the best part. I don't think I ever went more than 30 seconds without saying something like "Wow! Look at that".

It was so worthwhile having a car and driver because we could take a detour or pull over and get out if something caught our attention. We pulled over and got out a lot.

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[tikay]

India.

During the course if our visit we covered over a thousand miles by car, through cities and rural areas. Much of it was at speeds of 20 mph or less with frequent stops, both forced and voluntary. For me this was the best part. I don't think I ever went more than 30 seconds without saying something like "Wow! Look at that".

It was so worthwhile having a car and driver because we could take a detour or pull over and get out if something caught our attention. We pulled over and got out a lot.

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Ahh, the luxury of fresh running water eh?

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It amazed me to see what csn be transported on a two wheeler when the health and safety bloke isn't there. I saw one bloke with over a ton of reinforcing bars on a pushbike. I have pics to prove it.

Motorcycles are used to carry everything from fridge freezers to entire families. (I read a review of a new 125 cc Honda in an Indian magazine and the reviewer said it was a good bike, but a bit of a squeeze for more than 4 passengers on long journeys.

This bike belongs to the bloke that delivers food to the people who are out working in the fields. I took this pic while he was indoors filling another couple of containers.

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Rod.

I was so sorry to hear about your spill when you collected your new bike, I made a joke about it but then my Internet connection went down so I wasn't able to follow it up with any real sympathy.

On the good side, you have managed to get your maditory spill out of the way early.

How's the hand shaping up?

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This was in Rajasthan somewhere near Jaipur. I can't remember the exact details because I was suffering from sensory overload.

I was moving along quietly, trying to get a snap of an egret that I kept catching a glimpse of as it worked it's way along the shore of this lake when a different photograph entirely just sort of composed itself before my eyes. All I did was press the button.

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Got the egret eventually.

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[atdc21]

Hi Tom,
           Looks like you had a great time on your travels. Thought the poem was brilliant , sort of sadly funny , if that's an actual phrase lol. I have written a couple of poems/odes ( not very well or quickly), and find it incredibly frustrating how we can know and speak millions of words at ease , but you try and put a few of the buggers together to try and get 'em to rhyme and make a bit of sense , and how find out how difficult it is !!!